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in work, at present a wood-cutter; (b) cf, shiftless, irritable, inefficient; 



(c) 9 , high-strung, irritable, suspicious, fault-finding, seclusive, discontented; 



(d) 9 , went West with husband, no details available; (e) cT , irritable, shiftless, 

 died; (g) cf, seclusive, active, moral, quick-tempered. 



AI other's father and mother both born in Ireland; no other data. (41 : 172; 

 IV 127.) 



(14) Propositus, cf, born 1885; at the age of 17 lost an eye in a steel- 

 smelting establishment and went West to his grandparents. Placed by them 

 in an agricultural college, he ran up debts and disappeared. After 5 years he 

 turned up again, destitute, having worked his way through Texas, California, 

 Washington, Oregon, and the mountains, often riding on freight-cars or walking 

 ties. He was given work on his grandfather's farm, but staid only a few 

 months. He is a joUy, likeable feUow, good-natured and good-looking; has a 

 hasty temper; is a spendthrift, untrustworthy. His one great passion is for 

 music; has an unusually beautiful tenor voice and plays almost any musical 

 instrument. Sibs: i - 9 , very capable but hard and selfish; 2- 9 , married a 

 ne'er-do-well. 



Father. — ^A builder and mechanic. A man of coarse appetites, low and 

 brutal passions, hard and selfish; a sexual offender who almost ruined his own 

 daughters and nearly killed his wife for her interference. Sib : i - 9 , lived after 

 her marriage in the same city; now in a "home." 



Father's father. — ^A man of unusual mental powers, a student of law, and well- 

 read generally. Was renowned for his wit, his vanity, his stories, and his 

 varied learning. 



Father's mother. — A notorious liar, mean and underhanded, contemptible, 

 enjoyed causing suffering in others, had a violent temper, and was always 

 restless and discontented. She was sexually uncontrolled, and it is thought 

 that her children are not all her husband's. 



Mother. — An effective woman who, after having left her husband, brought 

 up all her 3 children. Sibs: i-cT, went to North Dakota as soon as he finished 

 college. 2-cf , went to the Civil War. 3-c?, died at 21, planned "journeys" 

 all his life. 



Mother's father. — ^A pioneer in Western New York, a canal-boat captain, a 

 dreamer, yet not impractical. (Ami.-i.) 



(15) Propositus, cf , a student in medicine, is an introspective, reticent 

 youth who hates social life. He is extremely fond of travel, of ships, and the sea. 

 His " business ability is nil." Sibs : i-c? , a student in college, hates travel, but 

 is fond of aquatic sports; he has excellent executive ability and a very social 

 disposition. 2 - 9 is fond of social activity. 



Father. — Has great business ability and power of leadership. He is not 

 introspective, stammers badly, and is passionately fond of travel and of the sea. 

 Likes marine sports. Sibs: No evidence of W in two sisters or in either of 

 their 2 sons or in the i brother. 



Father's father. — ^A ship-owner; a retiring, self-contained, introspective man 

 of good business ability. 



Father's mother. — Had a very social disposition and was not given to deep 

 reflection. 



Father's mother's father. — Was a ship-captain. 



Mother. — ^A retiring, reflective woman with a fear of ships and the sea. 

 There is no statement made that either of her sisters showed wanderlust. 



Mother's father. — An erratic man of marked inventive ability, "evinced much 

 wanderlust and traveled wide, especially at sea." His business ability was very 

 slight. 



